Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Journal of Patient Experience, cilt.7, sa.6, ss.1357-1361, 2020 (ESCI)
Inpatient satisfaction evaluation is essential for orthopedics serves. So the aim of this study was to develop a survey to evaluate the inpatients satisfaction in the orthopedics and traumatology service. The study was conducted with 102 patients (22 females and 80 males), who were hospitalized in an orthopedics and traumatology service. Data collection was performed with face to face interview. The survey development process was carried out in 4 steps: defining the problem and determining the subdimensions (1), composition an item pool (2), counselling expert (3), and reformation and implementation the survey (4). The final version of the survey have had 6 subdimensions: physiotherapist (1-3 items), inpatient administration (4,5 items), technical equipment and hygiene (6-8), doctor (9-11 items), nurse (12-14 items), and general satisfaction (15,16 items). In survey development process, internal consistency and item analysis were used for the reliability analysis. Cronbach alpha coefficient was calculated. The mean age of the participants was 41.43 +/- 17.85 years, 85 of the patients underwent surgery on the knee, 13 on the hip, 3 on the leg, and 1 on the thigh. Six items were excluded from 22-itemed basic form of the survey as a result of the item analysis. The internal consistency of the final version of the survey was found good reliable (Cronbach alpha: 0.880). So health providers will be able to use it reliably on orthopedic inpatients speaking Turkish. Also it could be translate to other language to widely use.